Recently I came across a new Google service, the Google Power Meter. This is a Google.org service that provides users with the ability to monitor their house’s energy usage from any web browser. It comes packaged in a very nice user interface, with interactive graphs and statistics in real time.
I found that Google Power Meter harvests energy data through its partners, one of which is The Energy Detective, a small company that manufactures a device that harvests the data. The neat thing about the TED, as The Energy Detective’s device is called, works not only for monitoring your home’s energy use, but also your solar systems production!
I will be posting more on Solar Data Monitoring later on, but for now, check out both of these websites, and evaluate whether or not The Energy Detective might be right for your solar system.
